A person is not earth, not water, Not fire, not wind, not space, Not consciousness, and not all of them. What person is there other than these?
AKKINENI NAGARJUNAIn peace there is profundity from which the highest respect arises from respect comes power and command therefore observe peace.
More Akkineni Nagarjuna Quotes
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Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave.
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Imagine a magician Who creates a creature Who creates other creatures. Acts I perform are creatures Who create others.
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Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion
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Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
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Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.
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Ultimate serenity is the coming to rest of all ways of taking things, the repose of named things; no truth has been taught by a Buddha for anyone, anywhere.
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That which arises dependent on something is not in the least that thing, neither is it different from it. Therefore, it is neither permanent or nothing.
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Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.
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My acts are irrevocable Because they have no essence… Where are the doers of deeds Absent among their conditions?
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Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there are no phenomena which are not void.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good,
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